On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Ted Neward ted.new...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah. Don’t use Maven.
I don’t know if Android artifacts are published to the Maven repos yet;
I’ve not heard anyone as of yet doing so, and I think doing so might be in
violation of Google’s license agreement that you clicked when you installed
the SDK tools. (IANAL.) And considering that most of the Android tool set
still comes from Google and is versioned pretty strongly and obviously, what
advantage do you see to Maven, particularly since Maven insists on being its
own build tool and would conflict in many ways with the Ant task that Google
gives you?
Maven does have uses for Android projects. For example, for SlideME, I had
the case of needing to release different variations of the client
(community, regional variations, etc). Maven, with the plugins from Masa,
was a very nifty way to shift around the resources files, do interpolations
of variables in the Android manifest, signing with different keys and
pushing all the different generated variations of the apk to a maven repo.
You would probably have much better results using Apache Ivy, if you really
wanted build-time dependency management, but even then that’s only going to
be for the non-Google artifacts.
Ted Neward
Java, .NET, XML Services
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http://www.tedneward.com
*From:* android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:
android-develop...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Nando Android
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 02, 2010 9:51 PM
*To:* android-developers@googlegroups.com
*Subject:* [android-developers] Maven and Android
Hi all,
Is there any documentation out there that shows examples on how to start
Android projects with Maven?
I like Eclipse to develop and debug but I like to use Maven to create the
project and control which jars are on the repository and need to be fetched
from the Internet.
Any suggestions on this?
Thanks.
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